ralmeida / civicideahub

Project to create a portal for gathering civic hacking ideas.

civicideahub

Project to create a portal for gathering civic hacking ideas.

Overall project goals:

• Create a place for at will submission of civic tech/hacking ideas from anyone via a mobile accesible web page
• Empower community members to solve problems in their neighborhood by connecting members with needed skills around shared impact goals
• Create mechanisms for feedback and growing ideas into projects
• Track the evolution of projects into protoypes and live products
• Create a space for idea collisions, different ideas for the same problems
• Create a space for skilled persons to find projects they want to contribute to

Anti-goals:

• Endless discussion without progress
• A collections of complaints wihtout proposed solutions

MVP Goals

• Collect ideas from the Baltimore community that may directly and positively impact local communities and government displaying the ideas already submitted
• Display collected ideas (and allow interaction on ideas?)
• Display what is currently in progress.

Key Sections

• view ideas.
• idea submission form
• page for about us.
• login/signup simplified through user name login and oauth2.0 standards and access.
• Some basic level of administration for the site based on user roles

#Installation

install Node and NPM

Install Dependencies

$npm i

Start Dev Server

$npm start

if you have docker you can generate a dev container

docker-compose up

The dev server is hosted on localhost:3000